I usually don't tell too many people this, but the very first live concert I ever saw was a Weird Al show. (I was ten, and it was for a friend's birthday party - cut a guy some slack.) Let me tell you, Weird Al draws the strangest crowd. And this was when his song "The Saga Begins" was popular, so not only did you have the Weird Al fans, but you had the Star Wars fans too.

Today, the Austin City Limits festival announced their artist lineup for the 2009 edition of the venerable music festival. Highlights of the listing include headliners Dave Matthews Band & The Beastie Boys, plus indie stalwarts The Walkmen, Andrew Bird, !!!, Girl Talk, and more. Tickets are currently on sale, and the festival date is October 2nd-4th, 2009.

Headliners:

Here are the new Hip Hop and Rap releases for May, 2009:

May 5th, 2009

• J-Live - The Best Part
• Krumb Snatcha - Hidden Scriptures
• Rapper Big Pooh - Delightful Bars
• RZA - The World According to RZA: Instrumentals
• Sadat X - Brand New Bein'
• Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus 12 Year
• Bicasso - Rebel Musiq

Here's a selection of new indie & rock music releases for May, 2009.

May 5th, 2009

• British Sea Power - Man of Aran
• Akron/Family - Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free
• J.B. Beverly & the Wayward Drifters - Watch America Roll By
• Ben Harper & Relentless 7 - White Lies for Dark Times
• Hatebreed - For the Lions

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival announced their artist lineup today for the 2009 edition of the multi-day music festival.

The festival spans 4 days in July, the 11-14th, and is held in Manchester, Tennessee.

The lineup:

According to Musicradar.com, everyone's favorite indie rockers - The Arcade Fire have recorded the soundtrack for director Richard Kelly's new movie, The Box.

Some of you might remember Richard Kelly from his most famous effort, Donnie Darko.

Said frontman Win Butler in an interview with Pitchfork Media, "It's kind of Hitchcocky, movie, orchestral, Mellotron stuff. It's instrumental music. No songs. It's interesting."

The Box is based on a 1970s episode of The Twilight Zone, and is scheduled to hit theaters in November of 2009.

10. Wham! Last Christmas

9. The Pogues and Kristy MacColl - Fairytale of New York

• 5. Squarepusher - Come On My Selector

  What I like most about this vid is the short story wrapped around the song – what kid doesn’t at some point believe they can outsmart and outfight a bunch of bumbling adults?

• 4. Portishead - Only You
  

1. 34. Duran Duran - A View to a Kill

   
   

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